| Show MIGHTY LONDON A Group of Facts About the Greatest Great-est City in the World London has a larger area than Now York Paris and Berlin all put together Ten millions of eels are annually consumed con-sumed in London gas A burned London fog costs 35000 for extra In London 861 streets are named after the Queen besides which there are 167 Queen streets A thousand piano organs are played in the London streets dally This does not Include common hand organs Ten days of London fog cast 25000 pen Dle on beds of sickness About 1250000 articles are pledged with London pawnbrokers weekly London consumes about 4000000 pints of periwinkles each year There are 200 periwinkles t the pint Total 800000000 periwinkles What becomes of the shells About 2500 dress suits are hired out in London each night It is estimated that In London fully 3000000 people never enter a place of worship There are 90000 paupers in London There are more than 4000 pledged abstainers ab-stainers among the London cabmen The London Jam trade provides employment em-ployment for 16000 people and 65000 tons of sugar are used yearly in the trade More than 1000000 readymade cigarettes are smoked in London each day Twelve thousand people are employed at the London theatres Londor has Nearly 320000 maid ser London streets are very long and each one is crossed by an unlimited number of other streets running at right angles to i or cutting It diagonally or otherwise other-wise From this 1 results that there are an unconscionable number of street corners cor-ners each one the junction of two streets or three or four a may be You may stand at any one of them with out being told t move on and take in the vista of that portion of the town In which you happen momentarily t be In h way the eye may grasp the perspectives per-spectives of twfo three or four streets successively almost simultaneously without a much a changing the position posi-tion Of in fact ton ones body fat by simply turning ones neck These streets are composed a follows A row of houses to the right ist paralleled at a distance of 1 20 30 40 or 50 feet by a second row of houses to the left or vice versa the fronts of each row of houses fac ing the fronts of the opposite row of houses unless it be tho backs which face each other when it is a mews A long and comparatively narrow space Is thus left between the rows of houses the center being a roadway for vehicles and the edges being for the safe passage of oedestrians This is the street When you get tired of walking on i you can calla cl a cab and drive back to your hotel It Is stated that London drinks every year 45000000 gallons of malt liquor 8000 gallons of wine and 11500000 gallons gal-lons of spirits London pays nearly a third of the whole income tax of England In winter as many as 40000 pe day of dead larks frequently find their way Into the London markets |
